Searles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
September 1989
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terminal Freight Handling Co. v. Solien · Eagan v. State · State v. Sorrentino · Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · Alcala v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[W]hile the jury are ordinarily the sole judges of the credibility of witnesses, the rule has its limitations, and many cases have announced modifications thereof, the composite of which seems to be substantially as follows: Where an accused is the sole witness of a transaction charged as a crime, as in the case at bar, his testimony cannot be arbitrarily rejected, and if his credibility has not been impeached, and his testimony is not improbable, and is not inconsistent with the facts and circumstances shown, but is reasonably consistent therewith, then his testimony should be accepted."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dangel v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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